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News and Events => Political and Legal News => Topic started by: Hazumu on April 10, 2008, 10:31:21 PM

Title: Equality for all? Not in Utah.
Post by: Hazumu on April 10, 2008, 10:31:21 PM
By Natalie Camunas

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Frustrated and unable to find a private attorney who would take her case, a caseworker at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agreed to serve as her representation. Her case worker told Losco that a pre-op transgender person has almost no legal protection in Utah, but a post-op transgender person (Losco underwent re-assignment surgery in 1994), has the same rights as the next man or woman. The EEOC has filed against Rocky Mountain Care–Tooele for discrimination against a woman because of her gender.